[lit-ideas] Re: Unforseen consequences of climate change
- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:29:55 -0600
I do not build snowmen, I build only naked snowwomen. I doubt that Sheikh
Mohammed Saleh al-Munajiid even knows what snow is and apparently doesn't
know the fun of being an infidel.
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 2:05 AM, <cblists@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We've been warned for some time to expect drastic consequences as the
> result of climate change (attributed by some to the excessive release of
> 'greenhouse gases' into the atmosphere). Scientists warn against blaming
> all 'abnormal' weather on so-called 'global warming'; it is is not possible
> to link individual instances of anomolous weather to any one particular
> factor.
>
> Nevertheless, concern mounts as these anomolies appear to increase, often
> bringing consequences for which the stricken are unprepared.
>
> An example (from a recent Reuters report):
>
> Snow has covered upland areas for the third consecutive year as cold
> weather swept across the Middle East. A prominent Saudi Arabian cleric has
> whipped up controversy by issuing a religious ruling forbidding the
> building of snowmen, described them as anti-Islamic.
>
> Sheikh Mohammed Saleh al-Munajjid replied to a query about the
> permissibility of building snowmen for one's children: "It is not permitted
> to make a statue out of snow [in the image of a human being], even by way
> of play and fun."
>
> That provoked swift responses from some Arabic Twitter users - including
> some support. According to one 'tweet', "[Building snowmen] is imitating
> the infidels, it promotes lustiness and eroticism."
>
>
> http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/12/us-odd-saudi-snow-idUSKBN0KL15N20150112
>
> Chris Bruce,
> living a chaste life, as northern Germany
> experiences yet another winter without
> the material necessary for the building
> of snow sculptures (erotic or otherwise),
> in Kiel, Germany
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>
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